The Iola register., 1887-03-11
CHAS- F. SCOTT
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY
FRIDAY, MARCH 11th 1887.
THEN AND NOW.

In his annual message, President
Cleveland said, "Eyery patriotic heart,
responds to 4 tender consideration for
thuse who having served their country
long and well, are reduced to destitu-
ton and dependence, not as an Incl
dent of their service, but with advanc-
ing age, or. through sickness or mis-
fortune. We are all tempted by the
contemplation of such a condition to
supply relief, and are often impatient
of the limitations ofpublic duty. Yield
ing t. no one i'm the desire to indulge
this feeling of consideration, I cannot
rid myself of the conviction that if
these eX-soldiers are to be relieved,
they and their cause are entitled to
the benefit of an enactment under
which relief may be claimed as right
and that such relief should be granted
under the sanction of law, not in eva
sion of it: nor should such worthy
objects of care, all equally entitled, be
remitted to the unequal operation of
sympathy, or the tender mercies of
social and political influence with
their unjust Discrimination
At regular meeting of McCook
Post: No. 81, Department Of Kansas.
G. A. r. held in Grand Army Hall,
lola, Kausas, March 5th, 1857, by a
unanimous vote of the Post, the Com
mander was requested to appoint a
committee of three with instructions
to draft resolutions of strong condem-
nation of the Presidents veto of the
dependent pension bill and to denounce
the old soldiers in Congress, who by
influence and vote sustained said
veto.
The following are the resolutions
framed by the committee in Accord
lance with their instructions:
WHEREAS, The fraternal duty of the
Grand Army of the Republic is to ever
guard and cherish the welfare of un-
fortunate and dependent comrades who
gave the best years of their lives to the
defense of their country and by reason
Of which service they are dependent,
and
WHEREAS, The dependent pension
bill, IA wise and humane measure for
the relief Of this unfortunate class, and
for the transfer of the burden of their
support from individuals and commun.
ities-where it is felt-to the general
Government. where it properly belongs
and where it would not be felt was
passed by both houses of congress, in
accordance with the Recommendation
of Grover Cleveland in his message to
Congress, and
WHEREAS, Mr.. Cleveland, in opposi-
ton to his said recommendation, saw
fit to veto said bill, and
WHEREAS, Certain old soldiers in
Congress, after having first supported
said bill in its passage changed front"
in the final action thereon aud worked
and voted to sustain the veto, crooked
the pregnant hinges of the knee that
thrift might follow fawning."
THEREFORE,. Be it resolved by Nc
Cook Post No. 81, Department of
Kansas, q. A. R., that we denounce
the veto. of the dependent pension bill
and declare it to be the sense of this
Pest that Grover Cleveland is not the
friend ofthe Union soldier, and
Resotred, That the old soldiers in
Congress, who by voice and vote, sus-
tanned the veto of said bill, deserve to
be-as they have been-relegated to
the shades of private life and to be
forgotten by their comrades of the war,
and
Resotued, That the thanks of the old |
soldiers of the Union are due, and
should be most heartily accorded to |
Gen. Wolford, Of Kentucky, Gen.
Henderson, of Iowa, Col. Matson, of
Indiana and all the noble band of true
soldiers who stood by the "boys'' in
this issue, as they did when the battle
storm struck them a quarter of CEN
tury ago, and
ResolUee!, That the thanks of the
"bOys in blue" are due to every mem
Der of Congress who opposed the veto
and sustained the bill and to the Na-
tiOn0t Tribune for its ceaseless efforts
to secure the rights Of the survivors Of
the war.
J. e. HENDERSON
Committee n G~rrrrzrp 1